The Magazine: We Voted! The Election’s Historic LGBTQ Wins
Joe Biden win (praise the lord, the four-year nightmare is nearing an end), we decided to celebrate the historic wins across the nation for the LGBTQ community, including Sarah McBride, who became the first openly trans person in the United States elected to a state Senate seat, after winning her Delaware race on Tuesday by a huge margin.“The biggest takeaway from this race for me is the goodness and compassion and kindness of the voters of this district, something I’ve known all my life,” McBride told Metro Weekly’s John Riley on Wednesday afternoon.Meanwhile, both Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones took their New York races as expected, though the significance of their wins cannot be diminished, as both are gay men of color headed for the